Release Date: April 20th 2025. Record Label: Pillars Of Creation. Formats: DD/Vinyl
...And His Skull Shall Make My Bong - Tracklisting
01. Satan's Succubus
02. ...And His Skull Shall Make My Bong
03. Meth Slave
04. Satanalingus: The Devil's Tongue
05. Bongmaster General
Members:
THE COUNT (Collyn McCoy) - Guitar, Vox, Synths
THE BARON (Phillip Rodriguez) - Drums, Samples
THE DUCHESS (Mariana Fiel) - Bass, Vox
Review
...And His Skull Shall Make My Bong is the debut full length album from Doom/Sludge/Stoner Metallers Vape Warlök and it’s a record that feels it was created in the BOWELS OF HELL or perhaps made by the deadliest strain of WEED imaginable. The record is inspired by the likes of Electric Wizard, Sleep, BONGZILLA and Sons Of Otis.
The band is made up of members from acts such as UNIDA, Circle Of Sighs and High Priestess with their take on some epic ELECTRIC WIZARD inspired SATANIC FUZZED UP grooves which has an ugly atmosphere emitting from the speakers. The vocals from The Count and The Duchess are bleak and constantly full of death based GROWLS but they’re quite easy to understand which is a good thing so you can get a sense of the bleak story contained within the whole album.
The Baron adds some wickedly OCCULT based samples which thrusts this record into the upper levels of DOOM METAL which can be quite trippy, surreal and wonderfully psychedelic with the trappings of a downright intense trip into the sinister side of WEEDIAN metal. The songs are quite progressive with them running from seven minutes to eleven minutes in length. Vape Warlök demonstrate a wide range of different musical styles with some classic melodies appearing which combine superbly well with the harsh Sludge/Stoner Metal surroundings especially on tracks such as: Satan’s Succubus, ...And His Skull Shall Make My Bong and Bongmaster General.
The record may have some humorous song titles but that’s where the humour ends and the pitch black melodic violence reigns supreme with Vape Warlök perfectly demonstrating a noisy and sometimes surreal style of music which generates into some pleasing moments of Classic Psychedelic Rock. The downtuned and distorted instrumental passages have echoes of Church Of Misery with the soundbytes that are superbly woven into the DNA and creative fabric of the album. The music is full of slow-down and stripped back melodies with Vape Warlök playing an aggressive and faster style of music when the mood calls for this.
...And His Skull Shall Make My Bong does have a slightly DIY based approach with the production values but this adds a level of supreme urgency to the album and gives it a stunning “LESS IS MORE” energy that allows the music to have a sheer level of intensity which can be quite deafening at times especially on tracks such as Satanalingus: The Devil's Tongue and Bongmaster General.
Vape Warlök is a band who know how to have a DEMONIC good time with the band even adding strands of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal into the mix through some wonderfully pitched moments of classic guitar shredding on different parts of the record.
...And His Skull Shall Make My Bong is being released on the ultimate WEEDIAN holiday on 4/20 and this is the best possible way to celebrate. As this record is “Brutal and brilliantly filthy and can only be described as Bongzilla meets THOU”. So if you like your STONER records on the heavier and sinister side of life then Vape Warlök have all bases covered for an album that will easily be considered one of the best albums of the year.
Words by Steve Howe
Thanks to Mettle Media PR and Pillars Of Creation for the promo.
...And His Skull Shall Make My Bong will be released on Digital/Vinyl via Pillars Of Creation from April 20th 2025.
Links
https://www.instagram.com/vapewarlok/
https://www.youtube.com/@vapewarlok8343
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0awt1BklLLUydCXkK0qxIS
https://music.amazon.co.uk/artists/B0B281VDJ4/vape-warl%C3%B6k
